Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley. Leaving behind their youth, these cadets must decide what they are fighting for.

When I watch films about American civil war I really figure it out how civil war is so stupid in general. I lived trough one and i am amazed about what people can fight about. Although American civil war abolished slavery in America, it also made South dependent on the North, and it still feels today.

Now about the film itself. I saw worse period costume war films. This one was obviously made to commemorate that South had bravery during that civil war. Their soldiers, although out gunned and poorer in supplies and matériel fought with great bravery.

This film certainly remands me of war films they made about World War II in the former Yugoslavia, I even saw they used Macedonian Orchestra to perform the music.

If you like American civil war films this one is for you, otherwise I would not bother.